“Cell” by Stephen King starts out with such an incredible opening, it’s one that I’ll never forget for many years to come. Now, before I jump into my review, I just wanted to give everyone two trigger warnings for certain events that happen in this novel. There is violence against dogs as well as violence against women. If either of these triggers you while reading, please don’t read this novel.As I was saying, the chaos that kickstarted this novel was incredible as I immediately knew I was in f...

You know that mini heart attack you get when you're not sure where your phone is?I experience it often and don't know what I would do without Alexa.Me (panicking): Alexa, where's my phone?Alexa: Calling Jenna.Phone rings a couple feet away. I resume breathing and my heart rate goes back to normal.Twenty-eight minutes later, realizing I don't know where my phone is: Where did I leave it? Is it lost forever? Did someone steal it? Will I ever, ever, ever have my phone again?! Oh my god, what am I g...

Well we all knew cellphones would find a way to kill us one way or another. I think King was a little before his time because in recent years people have become seriously addicted to their phones. I know I have to have mine on me at all times. Likewise, I start to panic if I can't find it. Anyway, this book opens up with straight boom. We are thrust into a world where cellphones start ringing, emitting a signal causing their owners to drop into a maniac rage, called The Pulse. Clay, on his way h...

This is Stephen's spin on Zombies. These things are Zombie like, but they aren't really zombies. These things seem to still be alive, needing food, not just brains and if you cut them, they will still bleed. Yet, they no longer think and they are fairly mindless, like a zombie. Stephen riffs off zombies.I found this book entertaining and I didn't want to put the story down. Stephen is amazing at writing characters and I was drawn in by Clay, Tom and Alice. We meet them in the heart of Boston whe...

This book begins with a huge BANG! No setting the scene, no gliding over Castle Rock or Derry and visiting some of the cast, just page one - KICK OFF! Our mobiles, our bestest friends, become our worse enemy, in fact our bestest friend, makes us become our own worse enemy.The downside to King's relentless high tempo start, is that he book never really reaches those heights again. On first reading in 2007, I gave this book 6 out of 12, as I was kind of peed off with the direction the book takes. ...

While this isn’t one of my top favourite King books, it is a thoroughly enjoyable read nonetheless! I find it’s one of those candy reads, it’s easy and entertaining and doesn’t require you to think too deeply. I like the whole idea, I really enjoyed seeing King’s spin on zombies! What made me enjoy it less than other King stories is that I didn’t fall in love with any of the characters. I did enjoy them but nothing about them really spoke to me and the story left me wanting more on that level.

Focusing on one main plot element can go wrong if the writer is no plotter and doesn´t construct a finetuned metaplot around the fictional device.Without the extreme problem of the suspension of disbelief, especially after the first half of the book, it would be the used interesting characterization with some horror elements, but it´s a bit Sci-Fi and dystopia too, and that ruins the whole thing. Similar to Langoliers, King can´t deal with these things and for any reason, this can even be felt i...

3.5 Stars.....Ok, I do believe I'm with the 'don't like the ending' readers on this one, but oh what a beginning!Clay is happy........he just sold his first graphic novel and can't wait to share the news with his estranged (but loved) wife and 12 year old son; and as it turns out, luckily, does not own a CELL phone. While deciding to celebrate with an ice cream, all hell breaks loose on the streets of Boston, and afterward, crazies are everywhere, thousands of them, and travel by night (to get h...

I suddenly realised half way through this book that it is really a zombie novel. After a shower I felt better and rationalised that this was occupying my "wouldn't normally read this" slot in my book consumption; sigh of relief. I must admit that I did enjoy some of King's early novels, but this was so far fetched and ridiculous (Am I really saying "It" wasn't?). The plot is simple. Somehow, someone sends a pulse through the mobile phone system which wipes clean a person's mind and sends them ba...

Literary critics can moan all they want about Stephen King's "penny dreadful" oeuvre, but his mastery at the craft of storytelling is indisputable. King writes his novels like a seduction, the story unfolding delicately and deliberately. As any Stephen King fan knows, his coy expository chapters often take up the first hundred pages or more. In Cell, however, the reader is brutally dragged into the main action--unspeakable, senseless violence--within the first seven pages. Cell is by far King's ...